This paper adds to the limited number of studies analysing the relationship between host country corruption and FDI … inflows. A model describes the incentives foreign MNEs and host country bureaucrats have for engaging in corruption and shows … how corruption increases the MNE costs of operations in the host country. The model predicts that the costs caused by …

We examine the effect of corruption on foreign direct investments. Our model shows that corruption may have different … market. Using Swedish firm-level data, we find that affiliate local sales decrease with corruption, while affiliate exports … increase. Finally, corruption has a negative effect on the probability that a foreign firm will invest in a country. These …

economies. We focus on the corruption distance between the home and host countries as a crucial part of institutional quality …. Our results confirm that FDI flows are higher when they come from countries with low differences in corruption with Turkey …. Conversely, FDI flows are negatively affected when there exists a large difference in corruption between the investing country …

This paper documents that standard measures of corruption based on the perceptions of experts and opinion surveys and … corruption is in a country. We then show that while perceptions of corruption are significantly associated with the amount of … zero in a foreign country (greenfield investment) is significantly associated with the experience of corruption while …

) activities with a panel data of 30 developed or developing countries for the period of 1995-2009. The estimation model is …

resource-rich countries, the decision of host governments to expropriate these investments, and the level of corruption. Higher … production. Moreover, resource production leads to high levels of corruption. Our theoretical results are confirmed by … estimations of a simultaneous equation model for 50 resource-rich countries in which we endogenize expropriation risk, corruption …

Many recent FDI studies have focused on the effects of corruption on FDI inflows. Theoretically, corruption can act as … impact of corruption on FDI inflows in East Asia and South Asia – two regions that have recently received huge FDI inflows …. Using GLS methodology with 1995-2011 panel data, this study finds that the impact of corruption on FDI is significantly …

and are most strongly engaged in the fight against corruption, constructing proxies for provincial government efficiency … and anti-corruption effort. Our regression results confirm that FDI is attracted to provinces with relatively high levels … of government efficiency and are actively involved in the fight against corruption. …

This paper empirically examines the impact of corruption on FDI in European Union countries, including candidate …, we find that corruption has a negative impact on FDI. …

corruption index in the estimation procedure. Using a cross-country analysis from the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region …, corporate corruption and expenditure on education sector are positively related to the number of patents applications. Our study … shed light on the national innovation activities and anti-corruption programs. …